Getopt::Long::Less - Like Getopt::Long, but with less features
This document describes version 0.090 of Getopt::Long::Less (from Perl distribution Getopt-Long-Less), released on 2019-02-02.
This module is a reimplementation of Getopt::Long, with less features/configurability. Only the subset which I'm currently using (which I think already serves a lot of common use cases for a lot of people too) is implemented.
Only three functions are implemented: GetOptions, GetOptionsFromArray, and Configure.
No configuring from use statement. No OO interface.
use
Much much less modes/configuration. No support for POSIXLY_CORRECT. We always do bundling (this is not Getopt::Long's default), we never ignore case (this is not Getopt::Long's default), we always permute, we always autoabbreviate, we always do GNU compatibility (allow --opt=VAL in addition to --opt VAL including allowing --opt=), we never do getopt_compat. Basically currently there's no mode you can configure (although pass_through might be added in the future).
--opt=VAL
--opt VAL
--opt=
No autoversion, no autohelp. No support to configure prefix pattern.
No support for GetOptions' "hash storage mode" (where the first argument is a hashref) nor "classic mode" (where destination is not explicitly specified). Basically, the arguments need to be pairs of option specifications and destinations.
Currently no support for arrayref destination (e.g. "foo=s" => \@ary). No support for array desttype ('foo=s@' => ...).
"foo=s" => \@ary
'foo=s@' => ...
Also, this module requires 5.010.
So what's good about this module? Slightly less compile time overhead, due to less code. This should not matter for most people. I just like squeezing out milliseconds from startup overhead of my CLI scripts. That's it :-)
Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Getopt-Long-Less.
Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Getopt-Long-Less.
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Getopt-Long-Less
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.
Getopt::Long
If you want more features intead of less, try Getopt::Long::More.
Benchmarks in Bencher::Scenario::GetoptModules
perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2019, 2016, 2015 by perlancar@cpan.org.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install Getopt::Long::Less, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Getopt::Long::Less
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Getopt::Long::Less
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.